Dailies~ In His Word
October 2019
Hebrews
10 has so much to offer us that I could never write it all out in one day, let
alone in one Dailies devotion. Over it all I have come to conclude that we need
this chapter to proceed forward in our walk with Christ. Without it we will
never really ‘get’ what Christ did for us.
For
this chapter is a summation of salvation, of the real thing that happened via
the Cross of Christ, and just what we need to receive and respond to, and live
through with it.
No
matter what version you read it in the redemption of our sins was final. He
died to cleans our impurities once for good! We humans are so foolish and frail
that some would fall back into the sins they were pulled out of. In our
weakness though He is strong, loving and able to pull us back up when we but
reach for Him.
Who
does that? Who gives up everything so that we can be free of sorrows that would
plague us, pain that would control us, both emotionally and physically He can
help us to overcome things like this? Only God, via Jesus and the holy Spirit
who stays with us each day. For instance,
with God I can rise up when I trip and fall physically, and though I feel it
physically, my God will help me up if I let Him. I can go up a flight of stairs
without allowing that pain to overtake me. It’s only pain. Is the though I kept
thinking this past week. I have suffered worse, and so has my God. If He can go
through the cross I can…. You can fill in the blanks for yourself! Take out the trash on yourself! What have you
been struggling with this week?
Some
of us struggle with physical pain, some with emotional loneliness or un-fulfillment
… I want us to realize that through faith in Christ we can overcome these human
things and go on to live a fulfilling life! God will bring fulfillment, He will
bring those alongside us to stop the loneliness surrounding us, and He can and
will stop the pain.
One version reads: Then He said “I
will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds” And when sins are
forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices. In verse 17. Never
again, never… again. So, if God has forgotten
our sins, why then do so many people dredge them back up? When then do so many
people worry that they are still sinners not saved by grace?
The enemy has a heyday with us over
this! If we are in Christ, which means a believer in what He did, accepting
that He died or us and for the purpose of blotting out our sins, wiping them
off the face of the earth and making it possible for us to communicate directly
with Him constantly if need be; then we are free from sin forever. We should
have no reason to look back to the old us, to the old way of thinking and to
the things we thought were ‘okay’ to do but really knew it was wrong. The old
us is no longer a thing in God’s eyes, He sees us as new creations. We are fresh
and new persons who love Him and a pure in His sight.
He is faithful.
And
so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place
because of the blood of Jesus. By
his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the
Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who
rules over God’s house, let
us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him.
For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us
clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22
There is no longer
any reason to be cleansed as He has washed us clean. There is no reason to walk
around feeling sad about how our consequences have turned out, He has made a
way to change them!
There is nothing we
could do on our own to make things right with God, but God Himself made us
right, that we could communicate with Him face to face. We can receive His
redemption, His hope for our future, for healing, for life not painful in emotions
or fears, Our God took it away long ago we just sometimes have to walk through
things remembering that He has already removed it from our live story.
With Physical pain,
for instance we know it is for a time and then it will be gone. Other issues in
life sometimes will try to plague us with thier symptoms, but God has already
overcome those things! We need to push through to the other side of the pain,
the sorrow, the lack of finances, the lack of a life the way we want it to be.
The hardest part is to trust God and wait for it.
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm,
for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think o ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do but encourage one another especially now that the day o his return is drawing near. Hebrews 23-25
This
chapter in a nutshell is trying to tell us so much, but the one thing I want us
to remember today is do not give up, do not give in (that’s two) and do not let
satan steel your joy, your peace or your hope today!
Just
for today, just for this week, remember that God is with you, even in your
depression, in your pain and in your despair. He will not leave you there
alone, but will reach out His hand to pull you out… I you just take hold of the
hope He is putting before you today. Look for it as you meditate on His Word
today. He longs for you, for me, for us all to see what His life was given for.
He does not wish us to sit where we are but to progress closer to Him today.
Make the choice to step forward, to not listen to your own thoughts, but to
seek God and read the Word of God to find hope. Then make the choice to have
that hope each moment you feel the pain, the depression the feelings of uselessness:
remember God created you with a purpose and He will not stop until He has accomplished
that! No matter how old you are! Keep going forward! You will reach the end of
the struggle you are walking through, no matter how long it takes He won’t
leave you in it alone. He’s got this! Just trust Him, no matter how hard the
walk is keep going the peace, hope, and joy with our endurance, it will come.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you that You made a way for us to be free even in the midst of our trials and struggles. Help us to reach out and take that hand You offer us in whose ever form it is in; and to stop struggling against you as we walk in Your path for us today. Remind us we are not alone.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Suggested
Reading: Hebrews 10:1-39, Hebrews 11:1-,40 and Colossians 1:1-29
Teresa M.
Wilson